Machine Translation

Bayesian Methods

Phil Blunsom, Trevor Cohn, Chris Dyer and Miles Osborne. A Gibbs Sampler for Phrasal Synchronous Grammar Induction. ACL, Singapore 2009.

Phil Blunsom, Trevor Cohn and Miles Osborne. Bayesian Synchronous Grammar Induction. NIPS, Vancouver, Canada 2008.

Large-scale Discriminative Approaches

Phillip Blunsom and Miles Osborne. Probabilistic Inference for Machine Translation. EMNLP, Hawaii, USA 2008.

Phillip Blunsom, Trevor Cohn and Miles Osborne. A Discriminative Latent Variable Model for Statistical Machine Translation . ACL, Ohio, USA 2008.

Streaming

Abby Levenberg, Miles Osborne and David Matthews. Multiple-stream Language Models for Statistical Machine Translation. WMT 11, workshop at EMNLP, Edinburgh, UK,2011.

Abby Levenberg, Chris Callison-Burch and Miles Osborne. Stream-based Translation Models for Statistical Machine Translation. NAACL, Los Angeles, USA, 2010.

Abby Levenberg and Miles Osborne. Stream-based Randomised Language Models for SMT. EMNLP, Singapore, 2009.

Randomised Language Models

David Talbot and Miles Osborne. Smoothed Bloom filter language models: Tera-Scale LMs on the Cheap. EMNLP, Prague, Czech Republic 2007.

David Talbot and Miles Osborne. Randomised Language Modelling for Statistical Machine Translation. ACL, Prague, Czech Republic 2007.

Also see RandLM, which is an open source release of the code. This was funded by a gift from Google.

Evaluation

Alexandra Birch and Miles Osborne. Reordering Metrics for MT. ACL, Portland, Oregon, USA 2011

Alexandra Birch, Phil Blunsom and Miles Osborne. Metrics for MT Evaluation: Evaluating Reordering. To appear in Machine Translation. DOI: 10.1007/s10590-009-9066-5

Alexandra Birch, Phil Blunsom and Miles Osborne. A Quantitative Analysis of Reordering Phenomena. SMT Workshop at EACL, Athens, Greece 2009.

Alexandra Birch, Miles Osborne and Philipp Koehn. Predicting Success in Machine Translation. EMNLP, Hawaii, USA 2008.

Chris Callison-Burch, Miles Osborne and Philipp Koehn. Re-evaluating the Role of Bleu in Machine Translation Research. EACL, Trento, Italy 2006.

System Descriptions

Philipp Koehn, Amittai Axelrod, Alexandra Birch Mayne, Chris Callison-Burch, Miles Osborne and David Talbot. Edinburgh System Description for the 2005 IWSLT Speech Translation Evaluation. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation 2005.

Philipp Koehn, Amittai Axelrod, Alexandra Birch Mayne, Chris Callison-Burch, Miles Osborne, David Talbot, and Michael White. Edinburgh System Description for the 2005 NIST NT Evaluation. MT Eval Workshop 2005.

I've not added all the other ones as they are not that exciting.

Misc

Matt Post, Chris Callison-Burch and Miles Osborne. Constructing Parallel Corpora for Six Indian Languages via Crowdsourcing. WMT 12, NAACL, Montreal Canada, 2012.

Miles Osborne. Book Review of Learning Machine Translation. To appear in Natural Language Engineering.

Miles Osborne. Statistical Machine Translation. Dictionary entry to appear in Encyclopedia of Machine Learning (Springer-Verlag, forthcoming).

Alexandra Birch, Miles Osborne and Philipp Koehn. CCG Supertags in Factored Translation Models . SMT Workshop at ACL, Prague, Czech Republic 2007.

Alexandra Birch, Chris Callison-Burch and Miles Osborne. Constraining the Phrase-Based, Joint Probability Statistical Translation Model. AMTA, Boston, USA 2006.

This is a longer version of Lexi's shared-task entry for the NAACL 06 Workshop on SMT.

David Talbot and Miles Osborne. Modelling Lexical Redundancy for Machine Translation. ACL, Sydney, Australia 2006.

Chris Callison-Burch, Philipp Koehn and Miles Osborne. Improved Statistical Machine Translation Using Paraphrases . NAACL, New York, USA 2006.

Chris Callison-Burch, David Talbot and Miles Osborne. Statistical Machine Translation with Word- and Sentence-Aligned Parallel Corpora. ACL, Barcelona, Spain, 2004.

Chris Callison-Burch and Miles Osborne. Bootstrapping Parallel Corpora. NAACL workshop "Building and Using Parallel Texts: Data Driven Machine Translation and Beyond", Edmonton, Canada, 2003.